Her many science fiction novels include Venus of Dreams, The Shore of Women, The Golden Space, The Sudden Star, and The Alien Upstairs. Her story of a woman exiled from a safe high-tech city of women, the man ordered by the gods to kill her, and their search for a place of safety, is powerful, beautiful, and true." -The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Pamela Sargent has won the Nebula and Locus Awards and was honored in 2012 with the Pilgrim Award, given by the Science Fiction Research Association for lifetime contributions to science fiction and fantasy scholarship. Pamela Sargent's The Shore of Women is one of the few perfect novels of the 1980s. There are at most three or four such works in a decade. a captivating tale both from the aspect of the lessons that the author tries to impart and from the skills she has used to tell it." -The Rocky Mountain News "How many perfect science fiction novels have I read? Not many. An elegant science fiction novel." -Ann McCaffrey "Pamela Sargent gives meticulous attention to a believable scenario. "A cautionary tale, well-written, with excellent character characterization, a fine love story, as well as much food for thought. As Birana and her reluctant male protector Arvil grow closer, their feelings for each other just might mend their fractured world-if they somehow manage to survive. When one young woman, Birana, questions her society's deception, she finds herself exiled amongst the very men she has been taught to scorn. Following a nuclear holocaust, women have used advanced technology to expel men from their cities, bringing them back only for purposes of loveless reproduction under the guise of powerful goddesses.
This classic work of feminist science fiction finds the world reordered.
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